Senior Gameplay Systems Engineer

Who We Are

Founded in 2023 2K Sports Lab is the newest stand alone studio at 2K looking to push game development boundaries to bring 2Ks next groundbreaking sports franchise to life. Were building a world-class team at our new Vancouver BC location where our goal is to deliver an exceptional experience through bold ideas technical excellence and creative collaboration. Were seeking passionate and driven professionals across all areas of game development to help shape this ambitious vision. If youre interested in tackling unique challenges and think you have what it takes to level up our team we encourage you to apply!

What We Need

We are seeking a highly qualified and creative Senior Software Engineer to architect and build our next-generation Cinematic and Narrative Tooling within the Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) framework. This pivotal role involves extending and customizing UE5s core systems to deliver emotionally resonant high-quality and deeply interactive story moments. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of high-level engine features possesses deep C experience and has a passion for the art of digital storytelling.

What Youll Do

• Own the Cinematic Pipeline: Develop implement and optimize authoring tools and runtime systems for our in-game cinematic sequences and scripted events ensuring seamless transitions and high-performance playback.
• Sequencer Expertise: Extend and customize Unreal Engines Sequencer tool to meet complex narrative and production needs.
• Advanced Camera Systems: Develop sophisticated reusable and customizable in-game Camera Systems for both gameplay and cinematic moments including dynamic blending procedural controls and virtual cinematography tools.
• Facial Animation & Dialog Integration: Integrate and optimize Facial Animation Technology and Dialog Systems ensuring narrative audio lip-sync and facial expressions are performant and highly synchronous with actor performance.
• Content Creator Empowerment: Work directly with the Animation Narrative and Level Design teams to improve their daily workflows ensuring our tools are intuitive stable and highly productive.
• Performance and Stability: Profile and optimize cinematic and narrative code paths to maintain high frame rates and stability especially under high-fidelity rendering conditions.

What Will Make You A Great Fit

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on game development or interactive media.
• Expert-level experience using modern C and writing clean modular and performance-critical engine code.
• Deep demonstrable experience with the Unreal Engine 4/5 source code specifically within the Sequencer and general cinematic systems.
• Experience working with Procedural Animation Rigs Branching Dialogue Systems and Localization workflows.
• Strong collaborative skills with experience bridging the gap between technical constraints and creative direction.

Beneficial Qualifications

• Experience with rigging pipelines skeletal mesh systems or procedural animation technologies.
• Experience with state machines or behavior trees used for scripted events and scene logic.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating shipped titles or interactive projects delivering high-fidelity cinematic presentations.

The pay range for this position in British Columbia at the start of employment is expected to be between CAD 96400 - CAD 142660per year. However actual pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as job-related knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations. If hired the company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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